TWO CARS CONVERTED

Taupo Times, Volume II, Issue 80, 29 July 1953, Page 5

TWO CARS CONVERTED

SMASH IN KAIMANAWA STREET On Sunday night, July 19, residents of Kaimanawa Street were startled to hear a noise that was at once recognised as being caused by a traffic accident of some sort. Several people proceeded to investigate with the aid of electric torches, and found a car slewed across the road and partly in the eastem water-table. There was no one beside or in the car, but those present heard sounds of some person moving in the scrub on the bank above the wreck. The Police Station was advised of the occurrence and Constable Mills eame to the scene, There was then no trace of the person heard moving in the vicinity, The wrecked car was removed by a break-down truck. It had been badly damaged, and appeared to have "turned a flip," finishing its roll right way up. The car was the property of Mr Luke Pitiroi, who stated that he had left it parked while he was at the Terraces Thermal Baths. On coming up from the baths to the road he found that the car had been removed by some person unknown. A similar incident is reported to have occurred on the previous Sunday, when a motor vehiele was found to be missing from the same locality, and was later discovered abandoned in a pumice pit some fifteen miles away on the Napier road.